EPISODE 1: How to fix everything that is wrong with your book
(Spoiler Alert: It starts with reminding yourself what you love about it!)
In this episode, I take you through step one of a four-step process that will help you finish your book (and fix everything that’s wrong with it).
I’ll teach you about the origins of the 5-to-1 praise to criticism ratio in all healthy relationships and what that has to do with your relationship with your book. Plus I’ll share the questions I ask clients that make the creative process most fun, interesting, and generative.
We talk about:
[1:50] Reframing your writing process
[4:35] How is it normal to crave companionship during the creative process
[7:25] Reframing criticism as neutral feedback
[9:20] Why you should not outsource your belief in your book
[10:05] Strategies for reminding yourself what you love about your book
[12:30] Developing a relationship with your book
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About Zahie
(BTW, IT’S PRONOUNCED ZA-HEE-YAH)
Zahie El Kouri (Za-hee-yah) is a writer and Certified Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach. She specializes in helping ambitious women align their time, talents, and energy to write their books. She also helps men and women write their own definitions of success by imagining and prototyping different lives and careers using the Designing Your Life framework. Zahie has a B.A. in Literary Studies from Williams College, a J.D. from Cornell Law School, and an M.F.A. from New School University. She has taught creative, expository, and persuasive writing at the University of North Florida, Florida Coastal School of Law, Santa Clara Law School, the University of Oregon School of Law, and the Stanford Technical Communications Program. Her work has appeared in Mizna, Dinarzad’s Children: an Anthology of Arab-American literature, Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities, Memoir Journal, Brain, Child: the Magazine for Thinking Mothers, and The Manifest-Station. She is the author of two non-fiction books and is currently writing a novel about a family of Arab-Americans who start passing as white after 9/11.
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